We are seeking a hands-on Senior Java Developer with strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, and Apache Kafka. This is primarily an Individual Contributor (IC) role focused on developing scalable, cloud-native applications and distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities

- Design and develop scalable Java/Spring Boot Microservices and REST APIs.
- Build and integrate event-driven applications using Apache Kafka.
- Develop resilient, highly available, and performance-oriented distributed systems.
- Implement secure APIs using Spring Security, OAuth2/JWT, and modern security practices.
- Work with relational/NoSQL databases and optimize application performance.
- Develop unit/integration tests and maintain high code quality.
- Troubleshoot complex application and production issues.
- Participate in technical design, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
- Work with CI/CD pipelines, containers, and cloud-native deployment environments.

Required Skills
- Strong hands-on experience with Java 8/11/17+ and Spring Boot.




- Extensive experience building Microservices and RESTful APIs.
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka — producers, consumers, topics, partitions, consumer groups, offsets, retries, and error handling.
- Good understanding of distributed systems, resiliency, scalability, and asynchronous processing.
- Experience with Docker and cloud platforms.
- Strong knowledge of SQL and relational databases.
- Experience with JUnit/Mockito and automated testing.
- Solid understanding of Git, CI/CD, design patterns, and clean coding practices.

Preferred
- Microsoft Azure experience, particularly AKS, App Service, Azure Functions, Event Hubs, Key Vault, and Azure Monitor.
- Kubernetes, Kafka Streams, Redis, NoSQL, and observability tools.
- 6+ years of software development experience with significant hands-on Java/Microservices experience.

📌 Java Application Developer (Hyderabad)
🏢 GBIT (Global Bridge InfoTech
📍 Hyderabad